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A composition about honesty.

Some people say that honesty is gold, and honesty and trustworthiness are the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation. As the ancients said, people cannot stand in the world without loyalty. The poet said: three cups of truth, five mountains are light ... these are enough to illustrate the importance of honesty. Therefore, I think the value of honesty far exceeds that of gold!

If everyone stresses honesty, every enterprise stresses honesty, and every government and country stresses honesty and truly keeps its promises, then in the long run, people's lives will be full of harmony everywhere. Throughout the ages, there are many examples of honesty: during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Qi Huangong relied on his integrity and honesty to attract a large number of talents to work for him, and he also established a dominant position in various countries. Jin Wengong and Zhong Er are also wooing talents with sincerity, knowing that it is extremely dangerous to be honest on the battlefield, and they still keep out of it. Jin Wengong also rose to fame and became the overlord after Qi Huangong! And the well-known story of "avoiding three houses" is also praised by later generations.

Integrity is an indispensable "passport" for a person to face the world. Now let's imagine the result of not stressing honesty: if a government does not stress honesty, then the rights of citizens will not be guaranteed; If a business loses its integrity and the rights and interests of consumers are not guaranteed, how can this business not go bankrupt step by step? If even friends are not honest, then there will be no trust between people, friendship will become an empty shell, and the whole world will be shrouded in indifference ... The world after losing honesty will be so terrible. ...

Nowadays, people don't emphasize honesty, mostly because when honesty conflicts with money and interests, they can't resist the temptation, choose money, fame and fortune and give up honesty. As the ancients said, a gentleman loves money and takes it wisely. However, these people do the opposite, leading to putting themselves in a dishonest and unbelieving place. I remember Franklin's famous saying: If you slip, you may stand up at once. If you break your promise, you may never take it back. Isn't this a wake-up call for those who have no credibility?

In Zhu Ziqing's On Honesty, there is a saying: "Honesty, faithfulness and honesty are the virtues of a gentleman; Dishonesty is a deceitful villain. " This passage highly summarizes sincerity and insincerity respectively. Although there are white lies in the world, they are not all white, so we should not only be honest, but also distinguish whether others' words are credible.

Honesty is not only a personal matter, it is related to the ethos of the whole society, and it is related to the ethos of the country and even the whole society. Let's be honest-oriented, treat others with sincerity, do things with sincerity, and work together to establish the wind of honesty and let this fine traditional virtue carry forward! Honesty-priceless treasure